By Miranda Craigwell. HowlRound is working with playwright residency sites around the country to track the impact of what it means to have a playwright on staff. At each of the fourteen thea…
By Garrett Ayers. Over the course of my freelance directing and teaching career, I have observed a troubling trend. The professional actors I direct, and the undergraduates I teach, are havi…
By David Dower. Today my guests are Deb Stein and Suli Holum. Together they are Stein|Holum Projects and ArtsEmerson is about to premiere their second piece, The Wholehearted. Their earlier …
By Jonathan Mandell. March and April are always the most frenzied months for New York drama critics, with nearly half of the entire Broadway season's openings crammed into the few short week…
By HowlRound TV. T he One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) (Dominic D'Andrea, Producing Artistic Director) and Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Arti…
By Jeffrey Mosser. So what is the model? Where is the Venn Diagram? Which flowchart should I follow to start my ensemble theater? From the similarities of these three case studies I've attem…
By HowlRound TV. Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presents The Art of Collective Invention conversation livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer p…
By HowlRound TV. Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presents Perspectives in Theatre Criticism livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced How…
By Matt McGeachy. The idea to theatrically explore the theme of forgiveness came to director Soheil Parsa and writer/performer Peter Farbridge while travelling in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2…
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for Watch Me Work which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer pro…
By Casey Cipriani. But this particular day I was walking uphill in ninety-five degrees heat wearing hosiery, a corset, a silk slip, a long sleeved collared shirt, a wool skirt and a wool coa…
By HowlRound. The Weekly Howl is a peer produced, open access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.* …
By Jennifer Lane. Last week was one of those weeks where a handful of organizations decided to send out their rejections on the same day, a sort of "kick 'er while she's down" conspiracy. I'…
By HowlRound TV. The Foundry Theatre, New York presents Radical Imagination: A Conversation with Robin Kelley & Taylor Mac livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRo…
By Jeffrey Mosser. foolsFURY is a theater ensemble from San Francisco that sees advantages in working with playwrights and devisors, and seizes opportunities to become a touring company. As …
By David Dower. My guest for this call is the Executive Director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Deb and I have worked alongside each other for decades now"though that m…
By Bruce Norris. In the last couple of seasons I've become aware of a ticket scheme already practiced by some of our larger regional theaters, and currently under consideration at some where…
By Alice Stanley. In the talkback following "Amnesia", someone asked a pertinent question: "Have you ever gotten into any trouble telling this story because you're white?" The conversation o…
By HowlRound TV. Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville presents a conversation with Anne Bogart livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlR…
By HowlRound TV. NoPassport and Louisiana State University Department of Theatre present the 8th annual NoPassport Theatre Conference"Dreaming the Americas: The Diasporic Imagination livestr…
By Paula Vogel, Blanka Zizka. Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq is the result of two years of development, beginning with a conversation between Paula Vogel and Blanka Zizka during a playwriting…
By Gwydion Suilebhan. Storytelling in the digital age is a complex task. On the web, we need to embrace a more interactive version of storytelling than we embrace on our stages. Consumers of…
By Dani Snyder-Young. Next Theatre Company presented the Midwest premiere of Kirsten Greenidge's "Luck of the Irish". The multigenerational drama revolves around a house that is "ghost-bough…
By HowlRound TV. You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for "Watch Me Work" which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer p…
By Hannah Wolf. I sit in theaters today and I question who this contemporary audience is and if they find themselves represented onstage. The demographics of the audience are different, thea…